Coordinated and hosted by Frederick Renz, Founder of the Early Music Foundation and Director of Early Music New York
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Just as a conservator strips away layers of yellowed varnish to reveal a painting’s original vigor, performers of medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and classical music apply historical conventions and practices—such as reading from original manuscripts and using period instruments—to allow musical repertory to ring true, revealing each score as conceived by its composer. This daylong exploration of early music features lecture-demonstrations by some of New York’s most notable exponents of historically informed performance and showcases instruments from the Museum’s collection.
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| NY Historical Dance Co. |
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Morning Session: 10:00–12:00
The Jigge Is Up: Dance in Shakespeare’s Time
Featuring
the New York Historical Dance Company, Dorothy Olsson and Kaspar Mainz,
Co-Directors, with Flying Forms, an instrumental ensemble
The Art of Persuasion: A Musician’s Rhetoric
Featuring Parthenia, consort of viols, with Gary Thor Wedow, lecturer, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, soprano, and Paul Hecht, actor
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Afternoon Session: 2:00–4:00
From Chant to Organum: Improvised Polyphony of the Middle Ages
Featuring Lionheart, male vocal sextet
From Manuscript to Concert Hall: Revival of Fifteenth-Century Chansons
Featuring Asteria, voices and lute
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Evening Session: 6:00–8:00
Playing by Numbers: Baroque Continuo Realized
Featuring ARTEK, instrumental and vocal ensemble, Gwendolyn Toth, Director
The Flute’s Glory Days: Traversing the Eighteenth-Century Traverso
Featuring members of the Grand Tour Orchestra, Charles Brink, Director
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DATE & TIMES:
Saturday, March 13, 2010
10 am, 2 pm & 6 pm
PLACE:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
(at 82nd Street)
Manhattan
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This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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